skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obligatory mention of Ed Post's "Real Programmers Don't Use PASCAL"! You switched from Pascal to C instead of Fortran, but I suppose that is semi-acceptable!

https://www.ecb.torontomu.ca/~elf/hack/realmen.html
Yorkshire apostrophe fans demand road signs with nowt taken out
governments do not stipulate the action of banks, of 99% of their discrimination policy and process. Regulation operates at a much higher level.

In practical terms, this is all besides the point due to the credit issue.
Would you lend 500k to a drug addict with part time minimum wage work. If so, please go and be the change you want to see in the world.

Otherwise, note that this is the exact problem. prohibition of renting would adversely impact individuals who statistically would destroy value lent to them. Sorting these people is the entire purpose of the mortgage lending system.
I think the aliexpress link for the display is busted (as they do).

A natural integration would be with Home Assistant. I’m not sure if the Earu breaker has an OOTB integration with HA yet, beyond doing something like Zigbee2MQTT and configuring entities for readings. It’s a good pattern though - integrate meter with your automation hub, let the automation hub push the images to displays, for meter and everything else.
> It is wrong. But you're either wrong or dead.

In your example, yes. Reality is more complicated; that usually gives reasonable people room to disagree.
> It's even banned in some Arab countries for being a security risk.

Saudi Arabia is not exactly a bastion of free speech and murdered US journalist Jamal Khashoggi using the cover of an embassy. Not exactly a great endorsement of what Israel is doing here.
love the ad. but good fuckin' grief @ that twitter account's commentary
If you can provide much-faster decisions, that’s huge. You’d not turn off serious submissions that way. Many of these want to have an exclusive option at the story for months because their workload is so high. Cut that to even 60 days and you’d make writers very happy.
That’s hardly accurate. Deep learning among other things is another type of lossy compression algorithm.

It doesn’t have a 1:1 mapping of each bit of information it’s been trained with, but you can very much extract a subset of that data. Which is why it’s easy to get DallE to recreate the Mona Lisa, variations on that image show up repeatedly in its training courpus.
It would be nice if proxies are opinionated about typical URL usecases and offer an easy way to redirect www to non-www or handle path with missing slash.
Isreal has funded Hamas directly too.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/world/middleeast/israel-q...
Is this true? I do not think journalists are just allowed to the front lines of any war. The entire Gaza strip seems like one giant front line. There needs to be more journalists reporting but I think just allowing anyone to walk anywhere because they've got 'press' on their jacket is probably just going to end up with dead journalists considering journalists will want to be were the fighting is and will gravitate towards danger.
A profitable company that lacks DEI is still a success

A company that loses money but has plenty of DEI is a failure.

DEI is not the factor that determines success or failure.

It is a tool that you can use but it makes no sense as a goal or target in itself. If your customer base has some attributes that aren't reflected in the staff, maybe hiring some will help you relate. The idea that your company must match the 'diversity' of the general public (in one country) is all backward.
It shouldn't be necessary to disclaim, but I do barefeet running even in snow. But since I did not train barefeet running while my feet were developing, I could not run a marathon without shoes, I would damage my bones, my barefeet range has a limit.

So I certainly would not think of telling others they must be minimalistic, too. And if I would run in the cities on concrete, I would get myself good running shoes, too.
I'm going to guess this is going to be one of those stories that ends with "and that person is an idiot". And "there was nobody with a clue present to tell them they're obviously an idiot".
Neither of your examples make sense.

To do anything on cellular bands requires a license. Consumer equipment is locked down to get type licenses. Carriers need their own separate licenses from the FCC or local equivalent. You can build your own basebands but you can't do anything without a license. No carrier, paying for licenses and operating the network, is going to freely connect you to their infrastructure. People have collectively decided cellular networks is more valuable/useful to modern society than being able to goof around with scratch built cellular radios. There's other bands open to experimentation (ISM).

Complaining about Google and Meta is likewise confusing. Meta and Google can censor whatever they like. They don't owe you a bullhorn. But they do not control the whole Internet. If you can get packets routing to you, you can still publish whatever content you want. You can build your own application layer completely ignoring Google and Meta. There's dozens of overlay networks built on top of base Internet routing that work just fine.
Thank you both, clearly it was I who was confused!
Anecdote: I recently received a new M3 MacBook Pro at work, and the box was 100% recyclable, as well as everything inside of it - instruction manuals (why?) were held together with paper, the power cord had paper around it, and the keyboard/screen separator was also tissue paper.

I'm not denying that there's "plasticized paper" in the box, but as far as I could tell, it was 100% recyclable. As for "breaking down the box", if you flip the lid around to the bottom of the box, and then stack them together, then it saves a good bit of space. But yes the moulded cardboard that held the laptop itself was a pain to get out of the bottom section.
In countries that care about their people instead of housing profits, they provide homes for the homeless. As it turns out, effectively no one is so mentally ill that they choose to be homeless in those countries.

if that were true everywhere then those countries that do provide homes for everyone would have noone staying homeless at all. but yet they do.

some countries are doing better than others. finland among them i think. germany may actually have a lack of housing problem in larger cities, but even there you'll at least have access to a shelter, but i am certain that vienna doesn't lack housing at the rate they are building with 2/3rds of all housing being subsidized.

there is a difference to countries that do not provide adequate support for homeless people like the USA where thousands live in tents, and countries that do provide support, and countries where the chronically homeless are those few who do not have mental health necessary to apply for the necessary help to get a new home.

homelessness is a lack of homes issue until that issue is being addressed. homelessness that remains after that is a mental health problem.

of course once you are in that situation, the initial mental health issue that prevented you from seeking help right away is just a small part. the experience reinforces the mental health issues so that in the end you can't tell the difference anymore.
Ask HN: Keyboard with same feel as Apple's butterfly keyboards?
I was one of the people who actually loved Apple's ill-fated butterfly keyboards. They were super tactile and had really low travel; the keys were barely raised above the laptop surface. I don't enjoy Apple's current keyboards as much.

These days there are tons of niche players like Keychron making big, loud mechanical full-travel keyboards, whereas nobody seems to be nerding about slim, low-profile, chiclet-style keyboards. I've heard good things about Logitech's MX Keys series, but the travel seems on par with Apple's current keyboards.

I'm not necessarily after an actual butterfly keyboard, just one with the same feel.
Of course it's divisive. No topic is more divisive these days.
Title: "The Hill:..."

Article: "THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL"

:thinking_emoji:
From what i understand, most polls in Israel suggest that if an election happened right now, the current government would lose.
Shell sold 'phantom' carbon credits
https://archive.is/aeLO7
> the sentiment that can be seen across social media where even regular folks have started labelling israel as a racist settler colonial project that has no legitimacy

A majority of Americans support Israel's war [1]. An overwhelming majority believe Israel has a right to exist [2]. (The exception being 18 to 24-year olds, among whom 31% believe Israel does not.)

Israel has faced practically zero actual diplomatic consequences as a result of its war, with even those voting against it at the UN continuing to e.g. trade with and talk to it [3].

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/2024/03/21/majority-in-u-s-say-i...

[2] https://harvardharrispoll.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/HHP...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycotts_of_Israel
> It's a ranking, so presumably part of the US dropping is due to other countries improving.

Is that the case? Do the other countries’ entries in the report reflect that?

> I can't think of any metric that would include murders committed by angry men in cartels or angry men with SUVs in India but not angry men with shotguns in America.

One such metric would be whether a country’s justice system arrests and puts the perpetrator on trial, as happened with the American murder and presumably didn’t happen in the case of Mexican cartels or the Indian mob.
I made myself learn modern cmake after using archaic cmake and programming hundreds of lines of cmake functions. Aren't the variable scope semantics kind of fun in an admittedly sadomasochistic way? I'm not particularly competent and I had no problem grossing myself out. I programmed things in cmake that made my ancient advanced perl look like go. However it does all work and your own invented cmake build system is certainly not the most gruesome out there, and there is a lot out there.

Then I tried meson for my own projects, after deciding that cmake was just too ugly and aesthetics matter, to me. For about 3 months I fought the carefully thought out constraints but still liked it. After that the meson design clicked and boy howdy the amount of mental energy I put into my build systems has gone down comfortably close to zero. I adore meson.

Ah I should mention that five years ago or more even I bumped into rough patches in meson but I can say zero in the last few years. Bugs get fixed.

I don't think it implausible though that cmake seems to be getting better for the projects I dive deep into, in an almost meson way. Maybe the days of a project ~/cmake directory containing tens of files and 1000s of lines of bespoke cmake code are dwindling.

Now that I've drunk the meson koolaid, especially about the syntax not being a full programming language, something natively supporting lua, like xmake seems to, makes me wary.
> My opinion is that freedom of speech must be absolute, despite all the issues and shortcomings coming with it. You must be able to speak, write, draw anything you like, without any limits.

This would make all libel and defamation permissible.

This would make any type of business fraud permissible.

This would make it permissible to lie and fabricate documentation in order to target vulnerable populations for theft and fraud.

This would make identity impersonation (including of, say, law enforcement, medical, legal, or engineering professionals) permissible.

This would make it permissible to fabricate evidence for use in legal cases.

This would make it permissible to lie or fabricate evidence for sexual partners regarding STIs or contraceptive use.

Other than free speech zealots, you're not going to get anyone on board with rebuilding society so that we have to preemptively guard against all of these things, and have no recourse against bad actors.
I’m curious. Do you have data to back this up?
Most of those have been around for decades. Some of them are legal requirements, at least in some contexts. Some are required by research funders and similar organizations. Some must be included in a teaching statement, which became a popular requirement a decade or two before DEI statements. And all contribute to the administrative bloat everyone likes to complain about.
The Declaration declares people were "created equal," and even that phrase has historical context to answer "in what sense?"

Nobody is born with divine right of kings. That's the point. Other senses of equality come later and with good reason.
Times of Israel is the media of a different belligerent in this conflict, why on earth should I trust them to debunk AJ anymore than I should trust AJ to truthfully report on Israel?
> The solution to emergency vehicles being unable to navigate streets in a timely manner is to redesign the streets

There is another option: redesign the emergency vehicles. I grew up in a city (Salt Lake City) whose streets were designed to be extra-wide to accommodate the turning radius of a horse-drawn wagon; similar considerations are made for fire engines in many cities. By contrast, in Tokyo, they simply designed a smaller fire engine, which offers the benefit making streets more pedestrian-friendly in typical non-emergency situations.
Ask HN: Least Boilerplate Admin?
I would like to build some internal admin tools on top of pg with the usual suspects: a powerful datatable, file upload. Is there some ready made solution for TypeScript/JS or for Java that saves the most amount of time on writing boilerplate?
remember, when a hostile state does it - it is because they're dictatorial.

when a friendly state does it - it is because it was a threat to democracy.

don't confuse 'em
An inbuilt assumption of what you say is that you believe in meritocracy, specifically that the powerful and wealthy are that way at least part by merit. The flipside of this assumption is that poverty is a personal moral failure.

Personally i reject both of these assertions. So much of wealth can be attributed to imperialism, war, slavery, segregation, instituational discrimination and so on.

But let's assume what you say is true: if the wealthy are that way out of merit and they have more ability, intelligence or whatever, why do they need an davantage in college admissions at all? Wouldn't their own merit shine through?

Wealth already gives a host of advantages: opportunities, tutoring, access to people and not having to, say, work jobs to just survive. On top of all those advantages, why do they also need systemic bias in admissions?

The system is unfair by design because it needs to be for those who benefit from it.
Do you know of a Zigbee one? That's also a good option.
> Haarez has good coverage.

For now. They are likely to be the next outlet banned. The government has been openly threatening them for a year or so now.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-11-23/ty-article/is...
Yep, that makes this a bona fide duplicate. Write comments on that first thread, if you're into this post; flag this one.
I'm afraid we're just going to have to agree to disagree.
"by who"? I included the sources in my comment.

Even your link here says:

> In review, Al Jazeera reports news with minimally loaded wording in their headlines and articles ... properly sourced from credible news agencies. When reporting USA news, there is minimal bias in reporting ... In general, straight news reporting has a minimal bias; however, as a state-funded news agency, Al Jazeera is typically not critical of Qatar.

The failed fact checks were regarding two articles that weren't corrected.

> In 2017, Al Jazeera aired an investigative report of Britain’s Israel lobby. Following the airing, Ofcom (the UK government-approved regulatory and competition authority) received complaints from many pro-Israeli British activists, including one former Israeli embassy employee. They were accused of anti-Semitism, bias, unfair editing, and infringement of privacy, which was later cleared by Ofcom, who said the piece was not anti-semitic and was, in fact, investigative journalism.

Huh.

> Further, Saudi Arabia and three other Arab nations demanded Qatar to shut down Al-Jazeera. Al Jazeera rebuts the accusations here.

So pro-Arab that SA (and UAE, Bahrain, and Egypt) demanded Qatar shut them down...

I never said Al Jazeera is perfect, and as noted, there is a reluctance to criticize the Qatari government.

I take less issue with "some of their opinion pieces are vocally anti-Israel", unless the contention is that nothing Israel can do can be criticized for ... reasons?
Israel doing this might not be very significant, but if other countries, e.g. Germany do the same then this seems to cross another line
> There's no uninformed prior over this space, so there is always a choice of origin implicit in some way...

You could use an uninformed improper prior.
Apparently Gordon Ramsay ( a true Scotsman) has both: https://www.devonlive.com/news/celebs-tv/what-its-like-insid...

> As expected for a family who loves their food, their kitchen comes with all the mod cons - including TWO cooking ranges each set in their own island.

> One has modern induction hobs, while the other is an old-fashioned gas-powered stove for when Gordon needs as much space as he can get to work on new recipes and taste various dishes.
I don't know of any outright censorship of it, but all US journalists who worked for it were no longer allowed to after the outbreak of the war. If money is speech under citizens united, then pay for journalism would seem like it could possibly be protected under the same standard, though I think election funding is still allowed to be banned from foreign states even if they use super-PACs.
that's beyond a real stretch - is XSLT a LISP then? simply using YAML (or json or any equivalent data/markup syntax as the basis for a DSL syntax does not make it homoiconic.

in this case, the very rigid structure of playbooks and tasks, etc. within YAML is also part of the syntax. just the fact that you can generate arbitrary YAML (or json or etc.) from within a copy utility does not come close to homoiconicity of a LISP. can you effortlessly move back/forth from data to code? is everything both code and data at the same time? what's the Ansible equivalent to quasi-quote, for instance? is a bash script that sources (or creates or evals) a list of variable assignments in bash syntax homoiconic? due to eval, bash would seem a hell of a lot closer.

and those really aren't "syntactic macros" either, unless you'd be happy to define an MS-DOS .bat file that generates and calls a .bat file fragment "syntactic macros". it's using an external file ffs.

Ansible is good for what it does, but it has an extremely limited and rigid "flow-control" (if we can even call it that) and is more of a declarative language/config file than a general language.

this represents a pretty naive superficial understanding of these LISP features.

points for making us think though.
I think the overwhelming complexity of modern GPUs, CPUs, SoCs don't... overwhelm us.

Compared to the process of producing a 3nm chip with all those billions of transistors, the Manhattan project isn't huge. Groundbreaking, sure. Huge, compared to the development of EUV wafers, no.
What utter nonsense. First example would be these units probably use some ancient depreciated version of TLS or cipher suite that cannot be upgraded due to hardware limitations, forcing the back end to support legacy out of date software. Then the headline would be "ecobee doesn't care about security" with the Hacker News armchair security crowd all over them, claiming without specifics they could do a better job. Please.
>DEI statements are important because they show individual awareness of historical inequities and current biases that form modern society.

Only the currently approved ones.

The perfect example: holocaust denial. Ask anyone in the US how many people died in the holocaust. The answer is 6 million and they are all Jews.

The real number is 14 million with 8 million Slavs, 6 million Jews and 2 million misc of gays, Gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses, the work shy, etc..

The double think is so strong that you can have two people from the same village, in the same camp, dead on the same day and have one be a victim of the holocaust, and the other not just because one was a Jew and the other a Communist.
There is plenty of precedent as others have pointed out, including in the EU.

And we are talking about a media outlet controlled by the government of a foreign country that also directly finances the opposing terrorist group and houses their leaders.

Democracy merely depends on free media, not on free foreign or adversary media.
+1 - University of Warsaw and other universities I know - admission is automatic based on grades only
That's unlawful in the United States, whose values Israel purportedly represents. It's called "prior restraint".
These are only useful for otherwise-law-abiding people who go a little too fast. The trend in big cities in the US is to joyride/race with your license plates removed, obscured, or fake, and that's assuming the car isn't stolen (Kia/Hyundai.)
AFAIK the Germans kept improving both the Enigma itself and the procedures for using it. For example there was some specific weakness that the Polish attacks used, but at some point Germans figured it out and "patched" it. By the end of the war they could change the "encryption key" even more often than once a day, whereas before the war they could reuse the same key for many months. The Poles didn't break all Enigma setups till 1939 because one didn't have to it yet to effectively collect intelligence. Also because they hadn't existed yet :)

Enigma was actually pretty good, but it had a major design flaw: insufficient diffusion. The YouTube channel Computerphile made a good video on practical cryptanalysis of the Enigma using modern hardware: https://youtu.be/RzWB5jL5RX0. In short, if you know what you're doing you can do ciphertext-only attacks given long enough messages and minimal knowledge about the distribution of the plaintext (their example relies only on the fact that the plaintext is in English).
The standard isn't the point. You can have a "search key" or "standards compliant name" column in a table, and also have a "sign name" column. Whoever came up with this plan was either a fool or likes annoying people (possibly those two things are the same thing).
> examples from Israeli newspapers ... Al Jazeera is not significantly worse here.

Sure, I would like to see something similar from Haaretz/Ynetnews where they believed Israel without critical due process. And did not retract in a consistent matter.

And the second account is my mobile (I like it separate)... that is why I gave them the same name.
Yes, in many facets of this war Israel is held to a higher standard than America itself.

When the towers were hit, the gloves came off. America wasn't accused of genocide when civilians were accidentally killed as they went after ISIS. The notion of a news agency reporting on American military strategy and directly inciting an additional attack on American soil in actionable ways wouldn't be tolerated for a second. It's so absurd that there isn't even a real-world comparison, America silences that shit on a personal cellular phone level. It's treason.
Morons. The lot of them. Happy to use Googles services though I bet. Whatever is making them sick isn’t a new data center.
Both words are appropriate, as exasperated means “made worse or more intense”. They are synonyms.
Honestly I couldn't care less.

If anything I'd want to see less current politics on HN